OPatch detected non-cluster Oracle Home from the inventory and will patch the local system only.

Please shutdown Oracle instances running out of this ORACLE_HOME on the local system.
(Oracle Home = ‘/u02/orauat/uat/db/tech_st/11.1.0’)

Is the local system ready for patching? [y|n] y
User Responded with: Y
Backing up files and inventory (not for auto-rollback) for the Oracle Home
Backing up files affected by the patch ‘7327166’ for restore. This might take a while…
Backing up files affected by the patch ‘7327166’ for rollback. This might take a while…

Not able to start Application Tier using adstrtal.sh and adstpall.sh, however each individual script was working fine

ERROR:

2/24/10-12:41:23 :: adstrtal.sh: Database connection could not be established. Either the database is down or the APPS credentials supplied are wrong.
USAGE: adstrtal.sh <appsusername/appspassword>

I raised SR still not able to get the solution.

1. Stop All services one by one and run autoconfig, however this also didnt worked out.

Solution:

Diagnose as last change was with OS patches that there were some Linux OS security updates and fixes that was applied. However the server was not restarted. I restared the server and then both adstrtal.sh and adstpall.sh were working fine.

Problem: Users are not able to create the approval rules for all the transactions using Approvals Management Business Analyst.

Error: Contact system administrator, when enabled debugging the error was standard java error, further enabled low level debugging using FND: Diagnostics and Jserv.properties file. The end date was error out with different date format.

Solution:

Modified the date parsing logic, which is error out on production, with different date format.